Mather Urges Control Of A-Bomb at Source

Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, said Friday that we must "begin control of the atomic bomb at the source of the raw material." Recently elected president of the YMCA's National Council, Mather declared at their forty-fifth national convention that collaboration by ten nations that control the supply of uranium would prevent atomic warfare.

"It would be utter folly to attempt to protect the United States against attack with atomic weapons by 'keeping the secret of the atomic bomb,'" Mather stated. "Almost all the fundamental scientific principles pertaining to nuclear fission were known to physicists of all countries in 1939. The only secrets of the atomic bomb pertain to the techniques of detonation and the specifications of machinery and apparatus."